Room 186

Room 186 was a love motel infiltration in São Paulo, Brazil, designed in collaboration with Mesa & Cadeira. Rent-by-the-hour love motels hold a spacial place in Brazilian culture as the site of most people's formative sexual experiences. The Mesa & Cadeira experience turned love motel conventions of cookie cutter desire into an exploration of the self that moved both designers and guests to tears.

In the love motel in São Paulo, they put ladders in the rooms for the participants climb to the roof of the building through skylights, filled a jacuzzi with a colorful ball pit, covered the entire floor of a suite with leaves, and simulated a child's party birthday. - Folha de S.Paulo